Futabasaurus

Futabasaurus; Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous
	Reconstructed skeleton
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Class:	Sauropsida
Superorder:	Sauropterygia
Order:	Plesiosauria
Family:	Nessiterasidae
Genus:	Futabasaurus

Futabasaurus was a plesiosaur from the Upper Cretaceous. A complete skeleton of one has not been found. It is not known very well.

Model based off Nessiteras

Futabasaurus is the first elasmosaurid found in Japan. The type species is F. suzukii. Many of the bones of the type specimen show apparent scavenging or predation by sharks.^[1]

Futabasaurus Media

Life reconstruction of Futabasaurus suzukii
Cast of fossils of Futabasaurus suzukii exhibited at the National Museum of Nature and Science
Pre-2006 skeletal mount which is informally labelled as "Wellesisaurus sudzuki" (with a large stone containing crinoids and ammonites in the background)
Fossil of Futabasaurus suzukii. Exhibit in the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan.

↑ Sato, Tamaki; Hasegawa, Yoshikazu; Manabe, Makoto (2006). "A new elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Fukushima, Japan". Palaeontology. 49 (3): 467–484. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00554.x. S2CID 128621270.